Laurie Ann Guerrero is a Chicanapoet from San Antonio, Texas. She was the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2014 to 2016 and the Poet Laureate of Texas from 2016 to 2017. In the fall semester of 2017, she became the first writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio and a "fully immersed faculty member. She will teach a contemporary American woman poets course, host numerous University writing workshops and mentor students while working on her next writing project."[1]
Poets & Writers Magazine named Guerrero one of 10 top debut poets in 2014. A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying was listed as one of 14 must-read works of Chicano literature by Rigoberto Gonzalez and received an International Latino Book Award. Other honors include grants from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is a CantoMundo alum and member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop.[6]
Guerrero has been a featured reader and lecturer at various institutions including Yale University, New York University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Smith College, Texas State University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University of California-Davis, Vanderbilt University, Fordham University, Northwestern University, Dodge Poetry Festival, Poetry at Round Top, among many others. She has held residencies at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change in Austin, Texas, Baruch College in New York City, Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Letras Latinas in Washington, D.C., and most recently at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio. Guerrero's work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Luna Luna, Huizache, Texas Monthly, Bellevue Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Texas Observer, Chicana/Latina Studies, Feminist Studies and others.[9]
